Misconfiguration of sudo is insecure (Was: Sudo even more secure)

[John McCabe-Dansted]

On 3/23/06, Eric Feliksik <milouny at gmx.net> wrote:
> I wonder why people worked so hard to make gksudo lock the X stuff
> (other programs listening to the keyboard, etc). Apparently that's just
> "risk reducing", not really taking away a security problem?

Well, you can limit the ability of applications to mess with files
using something like

http://plash.beasts.org

Plash does not yet provide a good solution to the problem of X related security.

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John C. McCabe-Dansted
Master's Student